Example sentences of "[adv] did not take " in BNC.

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1 Ranulf and the lay brother were left behind as Thomas explained that the Picti were secretive people , hostile to those races who had pushed them from their lands and so did not take kindly to strangers .
2 Third , when the provincial gentry still did not take up the cause of reform with alacrity the tsar bypassed them by appointing a majority of keen reformers to the Editing Commissions .
3 The formulation of a decision was quite distinct from its implementation , which often did not take place until months or even years later .
4 The daughter 's second interview unfortunately did not take place until shortly after her mother had been admitted to long-stay care but it illustrates well the mixture of feelings which can be expressed .
5 But that wedding evidently did not take place , and in December 1753 it was Ann Bowden whom he rushed to the altar in Exeter , his bride being already heavily pregnant with the first of their many offspring .
6 Below : One of twenty-five cars decorated for the Coronation of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra in June 1902 , which sadly did not take place owing to the King 's illness .
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